Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion

Mr. Michael Silke:

It is hard for me to put a figure on it but if we take the 7,000 acres of meadowland and 7,000 acres of grazing land, then it is quite conceivable there are significantly more than 230 farmers. If the Deputy goes up the River Suck, which is affected by the River Shannon as well, or down the Little Brosna river or wherever, he is going to see there are a considerable number of farmers there. All those farmers are affected. There needs to be a little bit of clarity as to whether the farmer with a grazing callow who, as I said, got a month's grazing out of it this year, will get some kind of compensation or whether he or she will not. That is all I am saying. We welcome the package. Thanks be to God we are getting something. It is very little, as Mr. Ryan said, in the context of what we need, but it is good to get something. When you are dying, it is nice to get a drop of water. It is as simple as that.

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